Denied by Destiny: Trapped in the Shadows of the Mate Bond novel Chapter 540

~ Jace ~

“Grandchild?” A few voices ask at once, all eyes looking to Jaxon in replica astonishment, myself included.

“Jaxon, what are you talking about…” Josie calls out, but my eyes are locked on my brother, whose hand…that has remained on my shoulder for some time, suddenly has some weight to it.

Suddenly I can feel myself being pushed down by a gravitational weight.

“Jace…” He turns to me, a graveness within his eyes.

“Jaxon?” Mum demands out but she is immediately hushed by Jaxon.

“Mum, just stop…Jace…” My head tilts slightly to his hand on my shoulder, he had crossed the floor to be by my side…he was preparing to support me before I even knew why.

Why would he need to support me..

Then a flashback, to their odd behaviour the other night. The way he wouldn’t leave her alone…the way he snatched the champagne flute out of her hand.

“No..” I gasp out.

“Yes.”

“You are certain?” Auntie Rosa had said the baby was human, but Josie was right…when has Rosa ever been around humans. Except for my beach club and I put an end to that…being with her instead.

“Of course I am certain, she’s only ever loved you.”

No, if she was pregnant with my child I would have felt it, I would have recognised the pull even more.

I would have sensed if she was pregnant…

“Not if you took a wolfsbane shot!” My wolf whimpers out in my head, for once his aggression towards me is replaced with a yearning for her, a fear that I’ve done things I can’t undo. Irrevocable damage to the mate bond.

“No.” My knees fall to the ground, a thud ricocheting around the now silence of the room.

Everybody had been so loud, so vocal that I couldn’t make sense of what was being said.

But now that I am met with an eery silence...I can feel it, feel the truth calling out to me.